Dunsop Bridge

53.945794 - 2.520164Koordinaten: 53 ° 57 ' N, 2 ° 31 ' W

Dunsop Bridge is a village in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England. Until 1974 Dunsop Bridge was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The town lies on the River Dunsop and the bridge over this river gives the place its name, is located in the west of the River Hodder.

Dunsop Bridge was to the 19th century only a collection of fewer homes, the location of the village on the road from Lancaster to Clitheroe and the lead mining in the area led to growth of the place.

1865 donated the Towneley family, which at that time held the title of Lord of Bowland and local landowners were the Catholic St. Hubert 's Church. It is said that the construction of the church was financed from the prize money the horse Ketteldrum from the possession of the Towneley family in the victory of the Derby at Epsom. Hubertus as the patron saint of hunters is also considered the patron saint of the former royal hunting grounds of the Forest of Bowland.

In 1992, BT their 100,000. Phone booth on in Dunsop Bridge. In the cell, a plaque was placed that says you make a phone call from the center of Great Britain. This statement was amended and approved by the Ordnance Survey, as the center of Britain's located about 7 km north of Dunsop Bridge at Wolf Hole Crag. Dunsop Bridge, making it the closest place to this point.

Footnotes

• Location in Lancashire
• Forest of Bowland